The jury heard the friends returned to her house where Henry tried to soothe “bleeding inside her mouth.” It was found she had a wobbly tooth and her words started to slur.

Jury members were told they saw each other a few days later and Henry revealed she had to have her jaw pinned in an operation.

Miss Lester agreed with Henry’s defence counsel Richard Jory QC that his client had discussed leaving Walker, which the witness said she advised.

She also said she had never seen Henry being violent and from pictures on Facebook Ah’Kiell “always looked well dressed and looked after.”

Henry, 22, of Archdeacon Street, Gloucester, where her son was found unresponsive on July 30, 2016 and Walker, 27, of Sheldon Court, London, deny manslaughter, causing or allowing the death of a child and cruelty to a person under 16.

Tributes left in Archdeacon Street at the time of baby Ah'Kiell Walker's death

Walker’s barrister Jeminipe Akin-Olugbade suggested Miss Lester had got his client mixed up with a former boyfriend.

She had told the court she got to know Walker through a nickname ‘A-Star’ but later learned his real name.

“I put to you that you are mistaken. The person she was in a relationship with was Howard,” said Mr Akin-Olugbade.

“Not true,” said the witness who added she knows a lot of people in Gloucester by their nicknames.

Ah'Kiell Walker manslaughter trial: Everything you need to know

The accused: Alistair Walker

Age: 27

Address: Sheldon Court in London

Represented in court by: Jeminipe Akin-Olugbade

Charged with: Manslaughter, causing or allowing the death of a child and cruelty to a person under 16

Co-accused: Hannah Henry

Age: 22

Address: Archdeacon Street, Gloucester

Represented in court by: Richard Jory QC

Charged with: Manslaughter, causing or allowing the death of a child and cruelty to a person under 16

WhatsApp messages

Later in the day’s proceedings DC Sophie Ferguson was called into the witness box to go through what was found on the couple’s mobile phones.

She and prosecutor Andrew Langdon QC read a WhatsApp exchange between Henry and her mother Tracey Buckingham.

They discussed her problems with Walker.

“He’s so horrible to Ah’Kiell,” she said at one point. “Don’t know how he does it.”

Multiple searches were found on Walker’s phone for loans, including at 4am in the morning, hours before his baby became gravely ill.

The home in Archdeacon Street, Gloucester, where emergency services were called to see Ah-Kiell Walker

Henry’s history revealed she sent a Facebook message to her grandmother which read: “I can’t do another day x.”

The court heard Margaret Henry replied and said: “Be strong you can get through this,” before adding a few messages later she wouldn’t lend her any money.